James Ellermeyer discusses the importance of names.  Why are we named what we are named, why do we share names with parents, and why do we name things. How can we recreate ourselves in renaming our life and the things in it. 

Jim Ellermeyer discusses what it means to live life with “eyes wide open” and “eyes wide shut.”

James Ellermeyer discusses luck.  What is it.  How do we perceive it.  And how can we “change” it? 

James Ellermeyer discusses the source of our fear in our own heads as we identify our inner bully.  We name the bully and learn how to disarm it to conquer it.  

Jim Ellermeyer discusses how we are controlled by fear and getting past that.  How do we learn how to “float” when swimming through your life and overcome to grow on this adventure of life. 

James Ellermeyer explores the concept of lucid dreams and the concept of being right here not just when we are awake, but also in our sleep! 

James Ellermeyer discusses putting your life in a headlock or a cage, creating, rather than waiting for your life to flourish, and building the things in our lives that weigh us down.

James Ellermeyer discusses the concept of “finding yourself” and where you should be looking for it.  What is the controlled chaos of life and how we deal with it? Why is it important to create a reaction than to wait for one to come. How can you look to Pro Wrestling, the action and reaction, and the recreation personalities need to go through from time to time.

Jim Ellermeyer discusses the further idea of Full Impact Mindfulness, being the bouncing super ball and jumping fully into an action.  What does it mean to be fearless?  What is your emotional potential energy?  

This week, Jim Ellermeyer further discusses “Full Impact mindfulness”.  How do mirrors help us take a look at our selves and assess.  We discuss the light in your life that you let in when the windows of your life are clean.  

Jim Ellermeyer discusses looking at the “preview” of our life instead of buying a ticket to your life and participating.  How can we change our perspective to stop looking at the “monkey butt” of life and learning from failure. 

Jim Ellermeyer discusses our minds and lives going“down the rabbit hole”.  We discuss the song inside ourselves, and giving yourself permission to unleash that song and go down the rabbit hole in your life and venture into the unknown. 

Jim Ellermeyer talks about the phrase “It’s good to be me” and taking a personal inventory of yourself.  Learning about emotional sobriety, and the influences in how we feel. 

Jim Ellermeyer discusses “feeling the tingle” of life and participating in life.  What is holding us back from our Carpe Diem?  How do we become grounded.  

Jim Ellermeyer discusses the concept of “Seize the Day!” or Carpe Diem!  What is holding you back?  This is a WAKE UP CALL!  How do we accept our base and foundation of our lives?  

Jim Ellermeyer discusses taking ownership of our negative thoughts and friends and filling our lives with positivity in our thoughts, actions, and the people around us.  

Jim Ellermeyer discusses being truthful and why it is important, the visual masks we wear, our concepts of speaking the truth and perception of lies and speaking form our heart.

Jim Ellermeyer discusses why we continue to do things that do not work including the coping mechanisms, the illusion of control we present ourselves with, the male and other stereo types represented on television that teach us not to emote, how we give ourselves some “wiggle room”, and more!

Jim Ellermeyer discusses a concept from Gestalt theory and how to survive emotional quicksand as we try not to fall into the trap of looking at who we are not rather than accepting who we are. 

This week, we read a blog post where a student describes her venture into mindfulness in the first 6 weeks and how it changed her life.